Using the Power of Our Contract to Protect our RightsLeave Time Restored

NotificationNovember 9, 2017

When nearly two dozen CDCR employees fell ill due to smoke and
particles caused by an HVAC fire in their office earlier this
year, they were forced to use their own leave time to recover.
When the department initially refused to restore those lost hours
with ATO, our union led a grievance maintaining that the
employees were unfairly denied the proper remedy. After an
investigation by OSHA and other agencies, the department agreed
to settle by paying the affected employees in ATO and more than
160 hours of leave returned to their leave balances.